Remember Nature
Remember Nature 2025 celebrates the 10th anniversary of an art project initiated in 2015 by the celebrated artist Gustav Metzger (1926–2017).
HAMISH FULTON presents Bringing Tibet Home
On the 6 November the celebrated ‘walking artist’ Hamish Fulton will lead a communal walk in Helston and introduce a screening of the documentary Bringing Tibet Home.
William Wegman And Man Ray
Dogs have been a central part of William Wegman’s life and art for over fifty years. His first collaborator was the camera-loving Weimaraner Man Ray, who was an active protagonist in many of Wegman’s early videos, shot in his New York studio in the 1970s.
Artist's Choice | The Big Sea
The Big Sea is an exploration of the human and environmental costs of neoprene production in ‘Cancer Alley’, Louisiana. Neoprene is a material often used to make wetsuits and the film uses the lens of surfing to expose issues of greenwashing, social justice and environmental racism, and to explore the power individuals have to create change.
William Kentridge
This presentation of two short films, made some twenty years apart, offers a window into the creative processes of celebrated South African artist William Kentridge.
Selected 15
Selected 15 is a touring showcase of new short films by early career artists.
John Smith
Renowned artist filmmaker John Smith will visit CAST to speak about his work.
Being John Smith
In Being John Smith, 2024, the artist reflects on the ordinariness of his name and its profound impact on his sense of self.
Eraserhead
David Lynch’s 1977 dystopian debut Eraserhead tells the story of a young factory worker who discovers unexpectedly that he is to become a father.
Cara Mamma
Screening Postponed. Cara Mamma (24 mins) draws on a series of candid personal letters exchanged between Daniela and her adult child Naissa over a three-year period, combining these with dream-like allegorical sequences and cinema verité.
Arrietty
Based on Mary Norton’s popular story, Arrietty follows a family of Borrowers – tiny people who use human neighbours’ everyday objects fort their own purposes
The Hooligan Project
Liubov Sliusareva’s 25-minute documentary The Hooligan Project follows Ukrainian theatre group Hooligan Art Community as they work with young artists in Cornwall following their displacement to the UK by Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Children's Christmas Films
A selection of animated films for children will be shown in the black box screening space in parallel with the Christmas workshops on Saturday 14 December.
SPIRIT MESSAGES
Spirit Messages is a touring programme of six artists’ films curated by the prominent Dublin-based initiative for artists’ moving image aemi.
Huw Wahl and Rose Ravetz
For this special evening screening Huw Wahl will be joined in conversation by his sister Rose Ravetz, who introduced him to sailing on her Falmouth quay punt Defiance. This experience produced the first shoots of Huw’s project Wind, Tide & Oar, which grew into a sibling collaboration of multiple proportions.
Wind, Tide & Oar
Using a 1960s hand-wound camera, Huw Wahl shot Wind, Tide & Oar over a three-year period. In that time he followed a diverse array of traditional boats and the people who sail them as they journey through rivers, along coastlines and across open seas.
SELECTED 14
Selected 14 is a collection of diverse, surprising and provocative new films by early career artists.
MARGARET SALMON
Margaret Salmon creates intense and beautiful filmic portraits that focus on the minutiae of the everyday. Her close observations of human behaviour, plants and animals are both ethnographic and poetic in nature.
Three Short Films
Films by artists Samuel Bestwick, Georgia Gendall and Jo Lathwood will be shown as looped screenings on Friday 26 and Saturday 27 April. Each work focuses on a place in Cornwall or Devon and examines human relationships with nature and the effects of large scale industry.
Three Short Films
An evening presentation of recent moving image work by artists based in the South West – Samuel Bestwick, Georgia Gendall and Jo Lathwood.
Children's Films
A selection of children’s films will be shown in CAST’s black box screening space every day, Tuesday to Saturday, during the Easter holidays.
Aguirre: The Wrath of God
Werner Herzog’s Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972) follows the story of the doomed conquistador Gonzalo Pizarro.
Black Beauty
African fashion model Alexandra Cartier meets Jorge Luis Borges in a visionary experience.
WALK THE LINE
Walk The Line, directed by James Mangold, explores the rise and fall of country music legend Johnny Cash